Sentences with phrase «terrific movie characters»

The people are terrific movie characters, and the sense of a nation moving forward is remarkably gripping.Barely 16 years after adopting...

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Even in the movie's most conventional stretches, Blomkamp puts things across with terrific verve, using action and computer effects to enhance rather than trump story and character.

With a terrific cast of character actors, a tense dynamic between Takakura and, well, everyone else in the movie, and Ishii's trademark no - nonsense direction, Abashiri Prison is a B - movie genre classic that heralded even better things to come in the series.

It's the kind of movie that starts out strong (in this case with a terrific scene where Mendelsohn and Reynolds meet at a poker table) and seems capable of toppling over into a pile of disappointment at any moment; its characters are similarly perched.

A Fantastic Woman is the Chilean Oscar nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film, and if voters are swayed at all by the old - school attractions of underdog characters or indomitable heroines, this terrific movie should win in a walk.

It's a terrific character piece, a gripping prison break thriller with a wicked high - concept twist and the smartest action movie of 2011.

Final Verdict: Whiplash is so much more than a movie about Jazz; it is a thrilling battle of wits between two great characters, performed by some terrific actors.

But one of the great things about Sundance is that anything can surprise you, and not only does Tillman redeem himself here, but this movie seems destined for larger things thanks to its memorable characters and terrific performances.

An amazing film, from the battle scenes ripped off by Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, to the Noh influences in make - up, costume and acting, the brilliant use of color, and the terrific, non-method acting, especially by Nakadai and Mieko Harada, who as a combination Lady MacBeth, Edmund character is one of the great movie villains of the 80s.

Certainly tears are part of the grieving / healing / accepting process, but tear - jerking by filmmakers is not enough to make up for deficiencies elsewhere, any more than an abundance of terrific action choreography makes up for a lack of character development in a martial arts movie.

I'm not convinced either has the presence for the big screen, although Aniston was terrific in «The Good Girl» (a small movie) and Parker, who strikes me as more of a character actress than a leading lady, was suitably kooky and vivacious in Steve Martin's «L.A. Story» and hilarious as Johnny Depp's exasperated wife in Tim Burton's low - scale «Ed Wood.»

This is not an action movie but a character study, with terrific performances from all three leads, particularly from Ejiofor.

Giamatti did a terrific job with what could have been a thankless role and comes extremely close to making the movie about his character instead of the titular magician.

Sean Baker's recent (also terrific) movies Starlet and Tangerine are similarly focused / staged / and tonally nimble with gallows humor, character specificity, and socioeconomic concerns.

There's no doubt they would make terrific movies, with their vivid characters (both human and dragon), their exciting battle scenes and their lush and varied historical settings.